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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
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1. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






2. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






3. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






4. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






5. Broken down acts.






6. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






7. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






8. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






9. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






10. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






11. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






12. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






13. A four line stanza in a poem.






14. The organizational form of a literary work.






15. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






16. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






17. The person who 'tells' the story.






18. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






19. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






20. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






21. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






22. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






23. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






24. The selection of words in a literary work.






25. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






26. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






27. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






28. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






29. A character struggles against some outside force.






30. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






31. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






32. The dictionary meaning of a word.






33. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






34. A short saying with a moral.






35. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






36. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






37. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






38. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






39. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






40. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






41. A three-line stanza.






42. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






43. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






44. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






45. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






46. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






47. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






48. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






49. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






50. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.